Apparatus for cleaning and polishing boots and shoes.



E. WURMSER.

APPARATUS FOB/OLE 'XNING AND POLISHING BOOTS AND SHOES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 27, 1911,.

Patented Max:112, 191 2,

EUGEN WUBMSER, OF STRASSBURG, GERMANY.

APPARATUS FDR CLEANING AND POLISHING BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 12, 1912.

Application filed September 27, 1911. Serial No. 651,622.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGEN WURMsnn, a subject of the Grand Duke of Baden, Germany, residing at Strassburg, in Alsace- Lorraine,'Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Cleaning and Polishing Boots and Shoes, of which the. following is a specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus which serves for removing mud, lubricating or blacking and polishing boots or shoes by mechanical means. For this purposeanumber of brushes are arranged upon a shaft of which one brush provided with stiff and hard bristles is combined with a discharge tube through which the dust and dirt can fall into a receptacle. The other brushes serve partly for smearing the blacking, polishing cream or the like over the boots or shoes, and also for polishing them. In order to provide the brushes from time to time with the lubricating material without consuming too large a quantity and in a simple manner, cylindrical containers are provided which are filled with the lubricant. These containers rest upon angle levers, which are pivoted on two axles standing at right angles with respect to each other. By this arrangement it becomes possible on the one hand to place the blacking device quite at the rear wall of the frame and to direct it against the brushes in a simple manner by moving the hand lever, and to press it against the said brushes with. any desired rmness of pressure. A roller placed in the receptacle and preferably made of hard wood receives the lubricant from the container and transfers it in thin strips over the brushes so that no lumps are applied to the latter which might be thrown 011' by reason of the centrifugal force. By this arrangernent there is considerable saving in lubricant.

In the drawing: Figure l is a front elevation of the device with the roller raised. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section.

The box a, can be closed by means of a roller shuttle 6 having handles 0. In the lower part of the box is a place d for the receiving of the dust and dirt and a space 6 for holding the motor. In the upper part of the box are arranged the brushes above the partition f, which brushes are placed upon a shaft 9 rotated by the motor through the pulley h. The brush is serves to remove dust and dirt from the boot or shoes and is located partially within a tube Z the shape of which is so chosen that the dirt thrown oil passes into this tube and falls down from thence into the space 05. The brushes m and n serve for distributing the lubricant over the boots or shoes, the brushes m being designed to distribute blacking and the brushes n to distribute paste or-cream. For the pur pose of supplying the lubricant to these brushes there are angle levers 0 g which r0- tate upon the axle 2. One limb 0 of the lever is formed as a handle, while the limb g bears a receptacle 1' which is filled with the lubricant. In the receptacle r is rotatably supported a roller .9, which transfers the lubricant from the vessel to the brush. For this purpose the handle 0 is somewhat raised and the angle lever is then turned about the axle t until the receptacle'stands behind the brush and can be pressed against it by the aid of the handle 0. When the brush has been charged with lubricant, the lever is again allowed to fall into the position indicated in Fig. 1. The brush n is intended to polish the lubricated boot or shoe and the disk ocovered with felt, flannel or the like is intended for distributing the shoe cream.

I claim Ashoe polishing apparatus comprising in combination, a rotary brush for applying the dressing or polish to the shoe, a lever mounted to swing about vertical and horizontal axes, a receptacle for the material mounted on said lever and adapted to be shifted thereby into and out of proximity -to said brush, and a rotary element mounted 

